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the anti-liberal moment

As Amartya Sen argued in a brilliant 1997 essay, many of the core principles we identify with liberalism today — religious toleration, popular sovereignty, equal freedom for all citizens — can be found in writings from pre-modern Europe, the ancient Buddhist tradition, and a 16th-century..

the myths of indian nationalism

His aim is to take a critical look at an “overlapping consensus” between Indian liberalism—exemplified in the work of Amartya Sen, Ramachandra Guha, Sunil Khilnani, and others—and the rhetoric of the Indian state. ..

steven pinker on the alleged decline of violence

On a planet with more than 7 billion people facing mounting ecological pressures, the increasingly savage global class war of the 1% against the other 99, and the “endemic undernutrition and deprivation” that afflicts billions of people even in “normal” times—to extend Amartya Sen..

the bolsonaro effect

We could also say, borrowing from Amartya Sen’s somehow similar thesis, that the features of socio-economic underdevelopment (such as lack of access to education, sanitation and secure housing) also constitute forms of structural violence. . ..

monthly review

In this vein, reformers such as Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and others claim that it would just be necessary to control financialization to get out of the impasse. ..

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